learning and working

Many people work and attend classes at the same time. The combination of the two core tasks could have a big impact on people’s lives. Individuals are under a lot of stress since they rarely have time to rest; they are either at work or in class catching up on some lectures. The current study aims to analyze the impact of both studies and work on an individual’s health. Participants in the study will be people who work and take part-time classes, possibly in the evenings and on weekends. The research is essential in understanding the impacts of multitasking and how to mitigate them.Type of Research

The paper will assume the form of a quantitative research design. The researcher will prepare a set of questions to be administered to the selected respondents. All the respondents will be selected using the simple random sampling technique. All those who work and take part-time studies will be chosen randomly for the study (Orkin, 2014). The reason for using a simple random sampling technique is to ensure that each respondent has an equal chance of being selected for the study. The questions will be administered in the form of interviews. The researcher will contact the chosen respondents and schedule a meeting for every respondent at different days. A single conversation will take an average of 30 minutes. The interviews will be conducted at the places of work for the individuals to avoid any possible instances of inconveniences. A sample of 30 respondents were selected for the interview.

Interview Process

During the interview, the individual respondents were first given the informed consent form to sign. Also, the institutions in which the respondents worked for were given letters informing them of an interview for some of their workers (Rhodes et al., 2014). Furthermore, the respondents were given informed consent forms to sign. The structures were critical in ensuring that the respondents declared that they would provide honest responses to the questions asked. As initially planned, every interview took between 25 and 35 minutes. The respondents were asked some questions including those questions assessing whether or not they were struggling to balance between work and school. The interviews were administered within a period of five working days which allowed the interviewer to assess six respondents in a day.

Data Analysis and Results.

From the data collected during the interviews, it emerged that most of the respondents were struggling to balance between work and class. The results obtained were analyzed using SPSS.

Demographics of the Respondents

The demographics shown below are essential in understanding the composition of the respondents regarding gender, age, and marital status. It is evident that from the results obtained, 70 percent of the respondents were male while 30 percent were female. Additionally, 40 percent of the respondents were between 31-40 years followed by 26.7 percent of the respondents aged between 41-50 years. Also, 73 percent of the respondents were married.

What is your gender?

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Male

21

70.0

70.0

70.0

Female

9

30.0

30.0

100.0

Total

30

100.0

100.0

Age of respondent

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

20-30

4

13.3

13.3

13.3

31-40

12

40.0

40.0

53.3

41-50

8

26.7

26.7

80.0

51-60

6

20.0

20.0

100.0

Total

30

100.0

100.0

marital status

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Married

22

73.3

73.3

73.3

Single

4

13.3

13.3

86.7

Divorced

4

13.3

13.3

100.0

Total

30

100.0

100.0

Interview Questions Analysis

I strain trying to balance between work and learning

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Agee

13

43.3

43.3

43.3

Agree

14

46.7

46.7

90.0

Do not know

3

10.0

10.0

100.0

Total

30

100.0

100.0

The above analysis was meant to ascertain whether or not the respondents had difficulty balancing between works and learning. The results show that 90 percent of the respondents indeed was straining trying to balance between the two subjects. The results showed that both employment and education consumed most of their time daily including the weekends.

Secondly, the respondents were also asked about the effect of work and learning on their families, and their responses were as follows.

Work and learning has reduced my family time

Frequency

Percent

Valid Percent

Cumulative Percent

Valid

Strongly Agee

17

56.7

56.7

56.7

Agree

11

36.7

36.7

93.4

Disagree

2

6.6

6.6

100.0

Total

30

100.0

100.0

The above results also showed that 93.4 % of the respondents asserted that work and studies had denied them time with their families. During the day, they were either at work or school. Furthermore, they left home very early and come back late when most of the family members were already asleep. The results, therefore, implied that the respondents rarely found enough time to meet family members or even share a meal. From the above analysis, it became evident that it is difficult and also straining for people with families to perform their duties at work and study at the same time. The individuals asserted that they always got home when they are exhausted and can hardly concentrate on anything else.

Gaps

Some of the limitations of the study include the scope as it only covers the professionals. There are also other individuals who work in the informal sector and still take classes. Future research must focus on the entire job market and assess whether the results are the same.

References

Orkin, K. (2014). Data Collection Methods. In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 1430-1432). Springer Netherlands.

Rhodes, J. D., Upshaw, C. R., Harris, C. B., Meehan, C. M., Walling, D. A., Navrátil, P. A., ... & Kumar, H. (2014). Experimental and data collection methods for a large-scale smart grid deployment: Methods and first results. Energy, 65, 462-471.